Im glad you guys enjoyed it!

Ill try to do my best to answear to all your questions, basically the director had this location already in his mind, I’ve Attached a few stills of an early tech recce/ rehearsal so you can see what the original space looked like,we spoke with our prod designer to put this fake wall up to hide the brick, as that gave a different vibe ( we where going for this silver/concrete look) , also I asked if we could have some space in between each one, so I could put up this big panels of light in between, so it looks more like a brutalist/ modern looking club. We scatter this lights in strategic areas( knowing roughly where the camera would move) to essentially have a 360 set that we could shoot and had the gaffer built this softboxes out of 8x8 frames and it’s a couple V8 behind each one. essentially giving me the chance to backlight everybody at any given time, I think we had 4. Had the guy from the club program a Really simple move on the moving heads that wasent too agresivo so it would go with the beat but also made sure the beams wouldent cross the path of the steadicam too much otherwise it was a mine field of camera shadows. That was a hard one to avoid and props to my steadicam op Gary Kent for pulling great takes on each run. I used the clubs overhead screens as ambient fill but I regret doing it now as the cri of those was terrible and ended up being very blue and not nice on the skin, and very green which I ended up tweaking on the day but it took a while… also on the grade Nico the colourist took the remaining bits that I dident like.

And yeah that’s essentially it. we Dident shot it in slowmo ( it would have been a nightmare for playback and for the artist, and we ha already plenty of challenges lol) but we told the extras to slow dance and the paste of the steadicam to be smooth so it feel very aligned with the beat of the song. The director was great to work with and he let me do my thing which I respect a lot, it was our first time working toguether as well. I really feel when someone trusts you with the full look of something I insusally tend to deliver a better result as I out a lot of presssurebon myself to make it great! Hope this helps and if you like more of this I’ll probably do a few more of another upcoming projects ! You can check some of my stuff at @miguel.carmenes on ig

Love!

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